Danaher

Danaher Corporation is an American globally diversified conglomerate founded by brothers Stephen and Mitchell Rales in 1984. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the company designs, manufactures, and markets medical, industrial, and commercial products and services. The company is named after Danaher Creek in Western Montana, where the brothers conceptualized it while fishing.

Danaher was one of the first companies in North America to adopt the Kaizen principles to manufacturing, which is a lean manufacturing Japanese philosophy of continuous improvement and elimination of waste.